Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

I. NKVD pass British telegrams to the Germans

II. Anglo-French intelligence problems

III. Molotov-Ribbentrop talks

IV. Non-Aggression Pact, 23 Aug 1939

V. Secret Protocol

Poland

I. Anglo-Polish Treaty

II. German offensive

IIII. Soviet offensive

Eastern Front

I. Soviet Intelligence

A. German troop movements

B. German aerial reconnaissance

C. German agents

D. Richard Sorge in Tokyo

E. Soviet networks in Germany

II. Stalin’s delusions

A. German deception, à la SEA LION

III. Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941

Washington Conference, Nov. 1921-Feb. 1922

I. Four Power Treaty

A. Collective Security in the Far East?

II. Five Power Treaty

A. Naval Disarmament

B. 10 : 6 : 3.5 ratio

III. Nine Power Treaty

A. Chinese sovereignty and the Shandong Peninsula

IV. US Black Chamber decrypts

Manchurian Crisis

I. Anti-Japanese agitation in China

A. Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang

B. Mukden Incident

II. Japanese Invasion

III. League Response

IV. U.S. Response

A. Stimson Doctrine

B. (Kellogg-Briand Pact)

V. Japan leaves the League

Japanese “New Pacific Order”

I. “Japan’s Monroe Doctrine”

II. China

A. Rape of Nanjing

III. US Cancellation of 1911 commercial treaty

Japan’s Forward Policy

I. “Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”

II. German-Italian-Japanese Tripartite Pact, September 1940

III. US Embargo

A. Oil

IV. Pearl Harbor